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The Genomic Repairman is currently a Ph.D. student who escaped from the deep south, and studies DNA damage and repair through biochemical and genetic approaches. He intends to use pine away about his scientific interests and rant about the things (and there are lots of them) that annoy him.

My posts are presented as opinion and commentary and do not represent the views of LabSpaces Productions, LLC, my employer, or my educational institution.

So if you've got an extra $26 burning a hole in your pocket, check out:

by Misha Angrist. It covers the arms race currently taking place in sequencing technology post human genome project as well as his participation in George Church's Personal Genome Project. The overriding goal of the project was that individuals could have access to their own genomic sequence in order to help them make medical decisions. Its an interesting thought and Angrist does a good job of delicately playing both sides of this topic. The book is a pretty Boston-centric as Angrist was implanted for a while with Church's group following their progress, trials, and tribulations. The book brings up some salient points on the legal, personal, and ethical ramifications of someone posting their genome out there for public consumption. And despite redaction of certain portions, your genetic status can be found much like the way James Watson's APOE status was redacted at his request since he did not wish for either the public or himself to know, but there are work arounds to know it. So beware of putting your shit out their for consumption.

So if you've got the cash or want to borrow my copy, check out this book. Its a decent read.

Sounds like a good read. I have an ever growing Christmas list full of books that I really need to read, still have managed to read Rebekka Skloots book about the life of Henrietta Lacks yet. This is a pretty contentious topic, be interesting to read what he has to say about it.

Thanks for the review, please keep them coming, always looking for a good read!

Misha doesn't mention too much about HeLa in the book but those cells serve as a living bioethics case for our life sciences field to contend with. Message me your email address so I can send you your amazon code.

Oh, cool! I followed the link to your article from an LS tweet and hadn't seen your comment above. I must look like a complete competition whore, always wanting to win free stuff! Ha ha! Oh well, I guess that solves the issue of another book on my christmas list then, thanks a lot!!